[Chiefs Blog] Quarterback Matt Cassel was with his teammates at the Chiefs practice facility today and he said he would prepare as if he would play Sunday against the Rams in St. Louis.

”That’s why I’m here. I’ll do what I normally do. It will be a normal week of preparation. It will be a better week for me.”

Preparing to play and actually playing against the Rams a week and a half after having an appendectomy are two different things. The Chiefs don’t hold their first practice of the week until Wednesday and the first public indication of whether Cassel will play in St. Louis would probably come then.